IDENTITY
的depossessive/attributive particle
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CORE MEANING
possessive/attributive particle
- Part of speech
- particle
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.particle linking a modifier to a nounHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 白white radical (bái)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰白勺
- white; gives no sound in the neutral reading
- ladle element
USAGE
Common words
我的wǒ demy; mine
好的hǎo deOK; fine
真的zhēn dereally
Graded examples
这是我的朋友。Zhè shì wǒ de péngyou.HSK1
This is my friend.
RELATIONS
LEARNING
Memory aid
The little word that glues things together — think of it as an apostrophe-s.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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